I fear that I can't contribute anything "visual", here; but the particular line cited, holds great interest for me. I had the good fortune to travel on it in May 1983: this was in the course of a tour in Poland, organised by a British undertaking specialising in such -- mostly, experiencing and photographing genuine everyday steam workings; with a bit of "extra-ordinary, 'special' stuff" added on. Several days were spent based in the general Klodzko area; that being then reckoned by many steam enthusiasts, the best place in Poland: plentiful steam action on various duties, including long-distance passenger; plus -- with all respect, a rarish thing in Poland -- this happening in fine, very photogenic hilly scenery.
This tour was orchestrated often, with great ingenuity: its featuring of Scinawka Srednia -- Radkow, being a case in point. The following, done by ordinary scheduled public train workings; which was a problem re the SS -- Radkow branch, which as at the early 1980s had -- even by PKP rural branch-line standards at that time -- an extremely meagre passenger service: if I have things rightly, two workings per day Radkow to SS (very early morning, and early evening); and just one SS -- Radkow ditto (late afternoon, then forming the just-mentioned early-evening working in the opposite direction). We travelled on an afternoon -- ordinary scheduled public -- train, class TKt48 2-8-2T-hauled, running from Klodzko west to Kudowa Zdroj; at the last station before said terminus, we disembarked; and were taken in a road coach whose use the tour had, throughout: the few kilometres to Radkow, where we boarded the, as mentioned above, 1756 departure from Radkow for SS. It is reckoned that passenger workings on the Radkow branch often ran "mixed": thus it was on this day -- the train, headed by a TKt48, comprised two wagons loaded with stone, and the solitary passenger coach bringing up the rear. I think that in said coach there were -- as well as we railway nuts and our "minders" -- at least a few local inhabitants taking the train because they needed to get to wherever they were going; but at four decades' distance, memory fails to oblige in detail.
The 9km. Scinawka Srednia -- Radkow line (
@Pietro -- I'm sure you know all this already -- blame my fascination with this particular scene !) was only a part -- the most westerly extremity -- of a one-time bigger standard-gauge light-railway system; inaugurated when this area was part of Germany, which situation ended in 1945. Said system, named in German days the Eulengebirgsbahn, once extended for some 20 -- 30 km. north-eastward from Scinawka Srednia: including en route, a 6-km-odd rack section (something rare in this part of the world) to get it across the abovementioned modest mountain range, the Eulengebirge ("Owl Mountains" -- in Polish, "Gory Sowie"). The rack section was abandoned in 1931, still in German days; henceforth the railway was operated in two separate parts, until all taken into PKP post-1945. As per you
@Pietro, now no more; except, a few kilometres north-eastward out of Scinawka Srednia: which as I understand, has been still open for freight until, anyway, recent times; stone traffic -- I have not heard of abandonment of same, but I'm not nowadays well-informed on these matters.
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